Bookbinding.



No. 753,952. PATENTED MAR, a, .1904;

'G.H.DAY. BOOKBINDING,

APPLIQATIQH FILED JUNE 1. 1903.

no MODEL.

UNTTED STATES Patented March 8, 1904.

GEORGE H. DAY, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

BOOKBINDING- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 753,962,dated March 8, 1904.

Application filed June 1, 1903. Serial No. 159,428. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, GEORGE H. DAY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Bookbinding, of whichthe following is a specification.

The objects of my invention are to provide means whereby the leavescomprising each section of a book may be bound firmly together and atthe same time allow the leaves in each section to be drawn away fromeach other when the book is opened at any given place.

A further object is to provide means for binding a book in such a way asto prevent the leaves from being easily detached from the book and inwhich the chance of having the leaves fallout from the section in whichthey are placed reduced to a minimum.

A further object is to provide means whereby the sections of the bookmay be separated from each other and yet held firmly together at theirrear portions, so that the book can be opened at any desired place andwill lie substantially flat upon the table and the leaves will liesubstantially flat above the table when in an open position.

A further and very material object of the invention is to provide meansfor rebinding an old book, it being my object to provide a mechanismwhereby the leaves of the book can be cut 011 at their rear edges andthe frayed portion of the leaves removed and the portion of the leaveswhich is left and upon which there is no writing or printing can be heldfirmly in position, and thus obviate the difficulty which is so commonat the present time in having the leaves of a newly-rebound book fallout after the book has been opened a few times. This is especially truein books where the margins are narrow and where the paper is of a poorquality. By the use of the means which I have provided the binding canbe sewed very near to the printing without affecting in any way easyaccess to any portion of the book.

My invention consists in certain details in the construction,arrangement, and combination of the various parts of the devicewherewhich my binding is used, the outside of the rear lower portion ofthe cover being cut away to show the means of attaching the varioussections to each other and the means whereby the leaves in each sectionare held together. A portion of the upper corner of the book is brokenaway in this view. Fig. 2 is a detail View of a portion of one of thesections of the book bound with my binding and is designed to show theway in which the leaves of the section are held together by sewing in aparticular way the binding of the book to the leaves of this section,and Fig. 3 is a rear view of three sections of the book bound togetherwith the cover removed and a portion of one of the sections broken awayto show the way in which the leaves are sewed together and maintained inposition in the section. 7

Referring to the accompanying drawings, I have used thereference-numeral 10 to indicate the covers and the back portion of thebook. Placed on the inside of this cover 10 is a series of sections,each section comprising substantially the same number of pages as doesthe sections of the ordinary book. Each section comprises the followingparts: Apiece of cardboard 11 extends longitudinally of the section andat the back portion of the book. This cardboard 11 is of thin materialand is substantially wider than its thickness, and its rear edgeis'rounded slightly.

Mounted outside of the cardboard 11 and extending forwardly somedistance from the forward edge of the cardboard is a cloth having theupper portion 12 and the lower portion 13 therein. Placed between thethree edges of the portions 12 and 13 of the cloth are'the leaves 14 ofthe sections of the book. The cloth is pasted to the cardboard l1 and tothe upper leaf of the section and also to the lower leaf of the sectionof leaves 14. A row of stitches 15 is then made through the upperportion 12 of the cloth, through the lower portion 13 of the cloth, andthrough each leaf of the section of leaves 14:. These stitches are madeto extend vertically through each section of the book and through eachleaf in the section and through each portion of the binding; Thus bysewing the leaves of the section together in this manner it will be seenthat the leaves can be readily held firmly in position relative to eachother even though each leaf is separate throughout the entire book. Inordinary binding this cannot be done, for separate leaves are seldomused in books, four pages being printed usually together and then eachfour pages being inserted inside of the four other pages nearest them,and so on until the section is completed. Then when it is necessary torebind the book the leaves of the sections are cut off and they aredrawn firmly together and inserted into the back portion of the coverand pasted to it, and the result is that in opening the book the marginon the inside, which is usually very narrow, is entirely utilized, andit becomes almost impossible to see all of the printing on the page onaccount of the person using the book not being able to open it fully,the consequence being that the one using the book pries it open to haveaccess to the reading matter and one or two leaves fall out and the backof the book is oftentimes broken. By the use of the means which I haveprovided access can be easily had to any portion of the book withoutbreaking the back of it or without the danger of having bination of astrip, a cloth extending around ;the strip, a section of a book in frontof said gstrip, comprisinganurnber of leaves, a flexible materialextending over said strip and binding -stitches extending through theflexible material and each leaf of the leaf-section,

leaves drop out, and the person can easily see any portion of thereading matter even though the binding which I have provided comes veryclose to the edge of the reading matter.

All of the sections of the book are firmly held together by means of thecords 16,which are placed in the slots 17, which are cut in the piecesof cardboard and in the cloth which surrounds it. These cords 16preferably have frayed ends, Which are pasted or glued to the outersections of the book. The cover 10 is then placed on the outside of thesections and glued there, so that the book is then in con- 3 dition foruse.

By sewing the binding and arranging it in the way which I have describedit is a very easy matter to rebind books, the rear portions of theleaves of which have been considerably frayed, and the margin is verynarrow, for by using the binding shown herein the book will last a greatdeal longer than by the use of the ordinary binding, for the leaves willnot be easily torn out.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States therefor, is

1. A book, comprising leaf-sections, strips at the back of each of saidsections, cloth pasted over said strips and on the outside of eachsection, binding-stitches passing through the cloth on each side of eachleaf-section and through each leaf in said sections, means for holdingthe strips together in position relative to each other, and a cover,substantially as and for the purposes stated.

2. A book, comprising in combination leafsections, stripsextendinglongitudinally of the leaf-sections and at the rear of each ofthem, cloth or similar substance passed over each of said strips andoutside of each of said leafsections, binding-stitches extending throughthat portion of the cloth which is outside of the leaf-sections andthrough each leaf in-the section, substantially as and for the purposesstated.

3. In a device of the class described, the comsaid stitches extendingthroughout the entire length of the leaf-section, substantially as andfor the purposes stated.

GEORGE H. DAY.

Witnesses:

J. RALPH ORWIG, W. R. LANE.

